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Earl D. Fowlkes, Jr.

July 1, 2017 by The Altruistic Dissenter

Earl D. Fowlkes, Jr. was born on this day, July 1. He is the founder, president and chief executive officer of the Center for Black Equity, the Chair of the Democratic National Committee’s LGBT Caucus, and a widely respected HIV/AIDS activist. Earl Douglas Fowlkes, Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Earl Douglas Fowlkes, Sr., who worked for the United States Government and is a Baptist minister, and the late Elsie Fowlkes (nee Addison-Henderson) who was a homemaker. Earl Jr. […]

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Orlando Cruz

July 1, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Orlando “El Fenómeno” Cruz was born on July 1, 1981. He is a Puerto Rican featherweight boxer who has amassed 25 wins in the ring and represented his home country at the 2000 Olympic Games. Cruz is the first boxer to come out publicly as gay while still active professionally. Cruz was born in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico and started boxing at the age of seven. He had been expelled from several schools for fighting and sent by his mother to […]

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Dr. Sharon E. Smith

July 1, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Dr. Sharon E. Smith (“Vijayatara”) was born on July 1, 1961 (to March 13, 2011). She was a respected British researcher, academic, author, teacher, and Buddhist practitioner. She was also the author of several scholarly journal articles, book chapters, reports, and conference papers, all in the field of Western Buddhism and its cultural politics. Sharon Elizabeth Smith was born of African-Caribbean descent in London. Her parents had migrated to the UK from Jamaica; there was poverty, racism and abuse in […]

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